We have met the sexist enemy, and he is you, Mr. Hunt.

"My daughter loved Sex and the City, and women are great and blah blah blah whiny women blah blah blah."

Yes, he can say that there was no sexism, and that complaints about it are only "whining". But it's funny how the public can in general see through through pundit bias.

The real effect of his comments is simply to make those who already agree with him -- Obama supporters -- feel more convinced of their righteousness (one of their more attractive traits, of course), but to make any independent or opposed person lose respect for his opinion.

And of course his quoting the Pew Center regarding media bias only further underscores both his and the Pew Center's lack of credibility (though one wonders how the Pew Center might fail in any way in objectivity -- aren't they basically academics, and aren't academics unfailingly fair and objective in their assessments?)

This theme is also related to the sore winner concept, which is a constant from the trolls here & in the comments sections of the various "news" sites that I sometimes read.  The sore winner gig began back in 2000 with the Bu$hInc gang.  It results from the internalized knowledge that your team won by cheating.  It is tough to acknowledge that you & your colleagues are just plain thugs, so the most effective method to elevate your own puny ego is to demean the opponent--allow yourself to pretend that they grovel & "whine" in the face of your own superior ability to cheat.  That's because the opponent "deserved" to lose.

didn't lose the Democratic presidential nomination because she is a woman, and gender no longer is a big deal in American elections.

It is shocking to me that any judge could rule that a female rape victim doesn't have the right to use the word "rape" while testifying about the crime perpetrated against her. It defies belief that a judge could rule that the words "rape" and "sexual assault" are prohibited during testimony from a victim to describe a horrific crime of--well--RAPE.

Maybe Jeralyn could address this court ruling in a later post. I'd be very interested in hearing her take on it. Whether it ultimately is argued as a First Amendment right, or an Equal Rights violation, it is nonetheless an obviously shocking assault on the victims of rape (mostly women) and their right to justice.

Judges stir controversy by barring the word 'rape' in court
By Tony Rizzo | Kansas City Star
It's the only way Tory Bowen knows to honestly describe what happened to her. She was raped.

But a judge prohibited her from uttering the word "rape" in front of a jury. The term "sexual assault" also was taboo, and Bowen could not refer to herself as a victim or use the word "assailant" to describe the man who allegedly raped her.

The defendant's presumption of innocence and right to a fair trial trumps Bowen's right of free speech, said the Lincoln, Neb., judge who issued the order.

Bowen's case is part of what some prosecutors and victim advocates see as a national trend in sexual assault cases. "It's a topic that's coming up more and more," said Joshua Marquis, an Oregon prosecutor and a vice president of the National District Attorneys Association.

In Kansas City, Senior Judge Gene Martin recently issued a similar order for the trial of a man charged with raping a teenager in 2000. Despite the semantic restrictions, the Jackson County jury last week found Ray Slaughter guilty of forcible rape and two counts of forcible sodomy.

Bowen's case gained national notoriety and drew the attention of free-speech proponents after she filed a lawsuit challenging the judge's actions as a First Amendment violation. A federal appeals court dismissed the suit, but Bowen's attorney plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court.

Read the full story at KansasCity.com.

The key, Ms. McCaskill said, is approaching Mrs. Clinton's supporters with utmost humility. And, Ms. Backus added, that is not always the strongest suit of the young people who are some of Mr. Obama's most enthusiastic supporters.

"Not nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeh," Ms. McCaskill said, making a taunting sound. "We need them very, very badly, and we shouldn't be able to be afraid to say that we need them."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/us/politics/07women.html?pagewanted=print

Humility means not denigrating those who speak about sexism.  It means listening.  

Who is the bigger victim of intolerance?   What remains the larger problem in society, racism or sexism?

Well.  A signpost on that highway is now this sudden realization.  No one can ever say someone else is whining about racism without appearing insensitive to the issue if not complicit.